You mentioned Snow Crash, but not Cryptonomicon (which I personally enjoyed more than Snow Crash). Oh, it's a hefty read... maybe pick up that and a Clancy novel and call it a summer.
Right. Aren't we still using the same basic design of the airplane and the automobile and the cheese steak sandwich? There are improvements layered on, but the underlying design is still there.
It's not a bad thing to go back to the drawing board every so often and ask if there's a better way to do it. But be willing to accept No as an answer, instead of starting over for the sake of starting over.
Agreed. If the systems cost the same amount, why not just order the systems with Windows installed?
Dell's primary argument is that buying systems without an OS installed saves the company a step. But I haven't worked at a company yet that DOESN'T reimage their new PCs with a stamp approved by a desktop deployment (or similar) group. So it's moot what's installed on the hard drive, since it'll likely be blown away before the system even boots into Windows for the first time.
If it's the same price, it seems foolhardy to purchase the OS-less Dell and forego the free MS license.
Say hello and show your appreciation by paging your sysadmin with "07734" every hour or so.
We want to, send you. To Space.
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From the Orbital Pre-Qualification Program description: "If you have the determination, the resources, and can meet the requirements. You to may join this elite group of space explorers and visit the orbiting Space Station."
I'm a little concerned that the people. Who will send me to space. Haven't mastered where to place a period. I'd be bummed out if they accidently launched me into the wrong orbit and killed me because of a misplaced decimal point...
Wake up at the crack of 2pm, down some aspirin and a Big Gulp, and have a Tivo-enabled Simpsons marathon (sans commercials). Probably start out with Homer the Heretic, and go from there. Might have a mini Strangers with Candy marathon, as well.
BTW, it wouldn't be a holiday if I didn't wake up with a headache.
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Excellent! Does this now mean that Quake 2 can be used as a BBS door game? Where's my list of phone numbers... is Telenet still around? It's 7,E,1, right?
I ran a few BBS's in Tampa from around 85 to 92... here's what I remember from my experiences. The first board was GBBS running on an Apple ][e with 2 floppy drives and a 300 baud modem. After a few years, I migrated to an IBM PC XT with 640k RAM (all the RAM anyone will ever need) and a 30meg hard drive. Upgraded to a screaming 2400 baud. Ran software including WWIV (overall, my favorite -- came with source code!), Genesis, Searchlight, and QuickBBS. HATED PCBoard... retarded interface. The king of all door games was Tradewars 2002... some of the other better ones were Arena, Operation:Overkill, and Pyroto Mountain.
Oh yeah, FidoNet was Usenet, Zmodem was FTP, ANSI graphics was Flash, and spam was practically nonexistant.
Not surprising that kids coming out of college are blind to real life, considering how Microsoft-centric the world has become. It's a self-perpetuating problem: college kids only know Microsoft, so that's the only thing they'll push. Since it's the only thing they'll push, it's the only thing that will sell. Etc ad nauseum.
As somebody that supports a product that runs on both MS and UNIX, I've run into so many techs for whom Microsoft is a religion. They'd rather stretch the limits of running the product on MS, instead of sticking it on a Sun box where it'll crank along, because MS is the only system they know in-house. So the product runs slow... and I look bad. But you can't fault them too much: it's all they know. I blame their CIO for not being more aware of what's going on in the world.
And don't get me started on what a useless certification an MCSE is. It was time wasted for me to get one, and I would maybe pay it passing glance on a candidate's resume if I were hiring someone.
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You mentioned Snow Crash, but not Cryptonomicon (which I personally enjoyed more than Snow Crash). Oh, it's a hefty read... maybe pick up that and a Clancy novel and call it a summer.
"The worst fad has been these stupid little robots," said Minsky.
BTW, "In the Beginning was the Command Line" can be downloaded for free (yes, legitimately) from his website.
It's not a bad thing to go back to the drawing board every so often and ask if there's a better way to do it. But be willing to accept No as an answer, instead of starting over for the sake of starting over.
I foresee an abend for Novell in the near future.
In the M$ world, WinZip (or pkzip for dos). I learned the hard way that all my other utilities didn't help much if I couldn't unzip them.
Dell's primary argument is that buying systems without an OS installed saves the company a step. But I haven't worked at a company yet that DOESN'T reimage their new PCs with a stamp approved by a desktop deployment (or similar) group. So it's moot what's installed on the hard drive, since it'll likely be blown away before the system even boots into Windows for the first time.
If it's the same price, it seems foolhardy to purchase the OS-less Dell and forego the free MS license.
Say hello and show your appreciation by paging your sysadmin with "07734" every hour or so.
I'm a little concerned that the people. Who will send me to space. Haven't mastered where to place a period. I'd be bummed out if they accidently launched me into the wrong orbit and killed me because of a misplaced decimal point...
I'm pretty sure all this will teach thieves is to not steal Mercury Grand Marquis.
Mass hysteria? Dogs and cats... living together?
BTW, it wouldn't be a holiday if I didn't wake up with a headache.
Excellent! Does this now mean that Quake 2 can be used as a BBS door game? Where's my list of phone numbers... is Telenet still around? It's 7,E,1, right?
Oh yeah, FidoNet was Usenet, Zmodem was FTP, ANSI graphics was Flash, and spam was practically nonexistant.
Good times...
As somebody that supports a product that runs on both MS and UNIX, I've run into so many techs for whom Microsoft is a religion. They'd rather stretch the limits of running the product on MS, instead of sticking it on a Sun box where it'll crank along, because MS is the only system they know in-house. So the product runs slow... and I look bad. But you can't fault them too much: it's all they know. I blame their CIO for not being more aware of what's going on in the world.
And don't get me started on what a useless certification an MCSE is. It was time wasted for me to get one, and I would maybe pay it passing glance on a candidate's resume if I were hiring someone.